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Video ID number: V00045
Recording date: 24 January 1994

Overview

Solo butoh performance by Iwana Masaki. First performed in 1992 in Paris, Pescara (Italy), Chania (Greece), St Petersburg, Bucharest and Tokyo. This video is of the performance held at the 3rd MAMU Festival of Butoh and Jazz in Göttingen, Germany, in 1994. It is based on the memory of a woman Iwana met as a child, who had lost her husband in the war and went mad, wandered the streets in an uchikake [formal silk kimono overcoat].